HISTORY

Schmitz (1864-1959) arrived in Seattle just after the Great Fire of 1889 to marry Ferdinand. They and their children became "assiduous builders of the city and region". The children became a University president, a banker and an industrialist.

(Edited from the files of Don Sherwood, 1916-1981, Park Historian.)

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